Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch touted the NYPD’s gang database as key in combating the rising gang violence in the Bronx — a tool that Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani has vowed to abolish.
“Much of the violence of what we’ve seen over the last few weeks in the Bronx is gang-related — we know who the gang members are thanks to a Criminal Group database and know where they operate,” said the city’s top cop, praising what has also been referred to as the gang database.
“We know who the people are and are going after them,” she added on 1010 Wins Wednesday morning.
In 2022, Mamdani, the far-left Democratic nominee in the mayoral race, joined a trio of council members calling for the dismantling of the gang database…